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September 26, 2006

Apple is wrong

Filed under: Everyday — Isamu @ 12:25 am

There have been countless bulls and heavy bashing from the Apple side, who coincidentally sucks at market share. High priced products? Of course, they need money to support the collapsing building. Why all the hate from Apple? Simple, it will gain you controversy which will give you popularity, it’s one big ad.

4. 114,000 Viruses? Not on a Mac.
Mac OS X was designed with security in mind. Windows just wasn’t built to bear the onslaught of attacks it suffers every day. A Mac offers a built-in firewall, doesn’t advertise its existence on the Net, and isn’t compromised within an hour of being turned on.

Excuse me? No, it wasn’t close to being built with security in mind. For the record, Windows XP has a built in firewall too. You really wanna know why there aren’t much viruses for Macs? Easy..

Viruses are made with mass scale damage or interruption in mind, it’s not worth the time and research for virus writers when the target audience is rather small. Windows is mainly affected because EVERYONE uses Windows.

There are numerous different reasons about Macs and viruses, but that is the most obvious one.

5. Next year’s OS today.
Since Mac OS X engineers aren’t busy damming a flood of viruses, they have the time to think up amazing new technology. Like Dashboard widgets, mini-applications offering a world of capabilities just a keystroke away. Or a built-in RSS news reader.

Interesting? Maybe. Next year’s OS? Nope. Stupid? YES.

Really, they have hit ROCK BOTTOM. Considered to be a software giant of their own, Apple is peculiarly petty for including that. What much do you have to brag about Dashboard widgets? It’s really NOTHING new but mini programs running on your desktop, they are no different from the real programs that can run dedicatively. Wow Apple, a built-in RSS news reader.. BIG DEAL.

I won’t start on the other things listed, because it’s just Apple trying to squeeze even the smallest of their limited advantage to PCs and Windows.

Try harder Apple.

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I use comps that run on OS X and Windows XP and somehow I know the merits each OS deserves. But for you to belittle the efforts of Apple to produce a system that is both beautiful and functional simply turned me off.

And as for computer wizards who make viruses, wouldn’t it be a sort of an “honor” to produce the first ever virus that will create havoc among Mac-users (which I think represent a little less than 5% of all computer-users worldwide).

And yes, Apple is trying harder to make the computing world a better place to work with.

Cheers!

Comment by Ulysses — October 6, 2006 @ 7:12 pm
Hehe this is flaming coming from the Microsoft side of things, of course, from a fan. Look all around you, Apple creates controversies, trying to show who’s the top dog. I guess what I’m saying is that keep the business professional and hook up some integrity. Apple will only earn more contempt from both the right and wrong people for the bashing.

Comment by Isamu — October 8, 2006 @ 3:48 am
As passionate as I am with technology, I’m never really biased on the different choices available, if you know me.. I have an iPod and very much looking into buying a Macbook Pro when I get the money, I guess that pretty much shows where I stand in this.

Comment by Isamu — October 8, 2006 @ 3:51 am

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